Quotes About Understanding

And suddenly she knew exactly why Catherine had fallen in love with him. It wasn't that he was unusually attractive, or ambitious, or even charming. He was partly those things, but more important, he seemed to live life on his own terms.

If some lives form a perfect circle, other take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand. Loss has been part of my journey. But it has also shown me what is precious. So has love for which I can only be grateful.

You were honest and hardworking and kind. You were polite and patient and more mature than any guy I'd dated before. And when we were together, you listened in a way that made me feel like I was the only woman in the world. You made me feel complete and spending time with you just seemed right.

Marriage, each of them realized intuitively, was about compromise and forgiveness. It was about balance, where one person complemented the other.

Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us.

Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.

Relationship is about forgiveness and compromise. It is about balance where one person complements each other.

If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?

Stick two different people with two different sets of expectations under one roof and it ain't always going to be shrimp and grits on Easter.

I'm sorry' I said again. Whenever someone tells you something said, it's the only thing you can think to say, even if you're already said it before.

It's your eyes. They're ... more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have.

A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger's lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing

It was funny that you know someone for years but still discover something you never noticed before.

When I told you that I'd pray for you, what did you think I was talking about?

Men like women who know how to be subtle.

Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made it possible for me to go on, but you don't seem to realize that. Even when love is right there in front of you, you choose to turn away from it. You're alone because you want to be.

Sometimes there would be someone else out there, someone she didn't know, but when they saw each other each would nod, as if making a secret pact. No question, no small talk..agreed

but she realized that she wanted him to know her. She wanted him to understand her, if only because she had strange sense that he was the kind of man she could fall in love with, even if she didn't want to.

Admittedly, there was a lot she still didn't know about him, but she did know this: He completed her in a way that she'd never thought possible. Knowledge isn't everything, she told herself, and she knew then that, in Nana's words, he was the toast to her butter.

Do not judge the way i show my feelings. It's weird, it's different, but it's true.

It was a lesson that I would learn in time though it wasn't Hegbert who taught me.

Katie smiled and turned away, knowing it wasn't an illusion or a figment of her imagination. She knew what she saw. She knew what she believed.

In her eyes and in her touch I felt the echoes of my words.

I have loved you in return, more than you will ever know.